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bobabode 04-04-2012 12:58 AM

Building The Panama Canal on PBS
 
American Experience segment on the building of the Canal. Uplifting story. Most don't understand the significance of this project. Lots of archival footage. Well worth a look.

BlueStreak 04-04-2012 08:52 AM

It is facsinating. And the canal has been a wonderful example of how government and private industry can work together to build something that benefits everyone for long stretches of time.

But, of course, I do have to point out; It also demonstrate the horrors that can arise when project managers have a free hand to do whatever they wish with an unprotected workforce and little to no oversight. A lot of men died building that canal----and NO, it wasn't all due to malaria.

Dave

Dondilion 04-04-2012 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by bobabode (Post 96651)
American Experience segment on the building of the Canal. Uplifting story. Most don't understand the significance of this project. Lots of archival footage. Well worth a look.

Thanks for the heads up.

I knew a few people who use to work in the canal zone.

piece-itpete 04-04-2012 11:07 AM

Yeah it's great. I doubt we'd be able to build it now, we're too weak.

5000+ dead, yikes.

Pete

BlueStreak 04-04-2012 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete (Post 96699)
Yeah it's great. I doubt we'd be able to build it now, we're too weak.

5000+ dead, yikes.

Pete

No. Your party would label it "The Money Ditch" and make jokes about how canals are "...so 19th century!" and do everything they can to see that not a single penny our "our childrens" tax money is spent on it.

Once they succeeded in killing it, the Koch Brothers and their buddies would get another tax cut.

Then the Chinese would step in and build it.

Dave

piece-itpete 04-04-2012 11:34 AM

Boy, you sure see the world though Dem tinted glass eh? :p

Too bad it was built by a Republican :D

Man we can really turn anything into politics can't we?

Pete

BlueStreak 04-04-2012 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete (Post 96707)
Boy, you sure see the world though Dem tinted glass eh? :p

Too bad it was built by a Republican :D

Man we can really turn anything into politics can't we?

Pete

What is history without politics?:confused:

Right, Teddy Roosevelt. Whom I'm sure would be branded "anti-business" for his monopoly busting legislation and his support for organized labor (As weak as it was.).

BlueStreak 04-04-2012 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by piece-itpete (Post 96707)
Boy, you sure see the world though Dem tinted glass eh? :p

Too bad it was built by a Republican :D

Man we can really turn anything into politics can't we?

Pete

Just parroting the things I hear coming out of rightwing mouths.:p

Dave

Charles 04-04-2012 04:40 PM

Just another case of American exceptionalism run amok.

We should apologize.

Chas

Bigerik 04-04-2012 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by piece-itpete (Post 96707)
Boy, you sure see the world though Dem tinted glass eh? :p

Too bad it was built by a Republican :D

Man we can really turn anything into politics can't we?

Pete

Eisenhower was the last republican president.


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